The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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More Alan Kay Quotes
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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